Re: [squid-users] restarting squid without affecting clients?

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 21:36 +0300, Roland Roland wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this might be common knowledge to some of you..
> but as I'm still fine tuning my squid setup. I need to restart squid for the
> new changes in squid.conf to take effect.
> needless to say with each restart browsing stops for about 30 seconds or so
> till squid boots up again...
> is there any way to force the changes to take effect without affecting
> users?
>
I would agree with others in using 'squid -k reconfigure'. However, I
always run 'squid -k parse' beforehand, just to make sure the config
file is valid.

John.

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